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{Bridging Al-Serenities} … the paperback!

2010-06-09T16:16:00.003+01:00

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{Bridging Al-Serenities} … the ebook!

2010-06-01T06:13:00.013+01:00

Invitation to come read a 50% sampling of my book for FREE!

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My beautiful cultural bridge building work {Bridging Al-Serenities} is now available as an eBook edition.
The paperback edition (500 pages) will be available hopefully in a week or two.

Contents:
Introduction

PART I

First drafted in the spring of 2001 in the city of Sharjah, in the United Arab Emirates with having the isle of Éire (Ireland) as its setting.

Pearls of Her Majesty Queen Ave Éire Fragrance:
Richly creative stories told to Aoife on different topics as well as a request for her to interpret a collection of ancient Middle Eastern writings for the benefit of our contemporary and future worlds.

Chapter One
Ridding the isle of Éire of a Terrible Tiger

Chapter Two
Crescent Moon o’er the Hill of Elksnmist

Chapter Three
Custodianship of Castle Sanctuary throughout the ages

Chapter Four
Lineages of the Quietman and Quietwoman of Éire

Chapter Five
‘Sing us songs of your beloved Land of Ave Éire!’

Chapter Six
The request to interpret a collection of ancient Middle Eastern writings

PART II
Dating from the autumn of 2009 to the spring of 2010 in the village of Tallow, in Éire with having the Middle East; specifically the Levant, Anatolia, and Arabia as its setting.

Pearls of Her Majesty Queen Ebla Praiseworthy:
A collection of 400 highly creative short narratives on a whole array of topics; for instance wisdom, philosophy, mythology, dream, religion, history, heritage, lineage, love, aesthetics, prevision, and language.

Illustrations: The work contains 97 illustrative maps, and 3 illustrative texts.

EBook: $8:50 / €7.00
Paperback: $33.80 / €27.50 (Excluding shipping costs.)
(The ebook and paperback have different cover art.)

Looking for a great summer read?

{Bridging Al-Serenities} would be an excellent choice!

Ebook devices: iPhone, Kindle, Sony Reader, Nook, PC, Mac, Linux, Blackberry, Android

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Newly Published Book!

2009-04-24T16:18:00.006+01:00

Innkeeper's Fire is published!

2008-02-18T20:22:00.008Z

Innkeeper's Fire

Hardback:

Vol. One 493 pages
Vol. Two 605 pages

Description:

Innkeeper’s Fire is a keeper; a fascinating piece of literary art. It has been said of the celebrated Russian soprano Anna Netrebko that even if she were to learn many more new parts, the role of Natasha Rostov in War and Peace will remain one of the chief roles in her life.

The same could very well be said of myself, in that even if I were to write many more new books, the role of Rísteárd Mac Grailt in this work will remain one of the chief male character roles in my life.

That’s because this type of calm, wise, bright, joyous, courteous, warm voiced, nuptial hermit and family man; this rural philosopher-poet of Éire who tells mythic stories and engages in homely conversations perfectly fits my imaginative, writing, and poetic possibilities.

There is the quiet man and his lady of the valley of Ballylee, the quiet man and his lady of the lake isle of Innisfree, and now here the quiet man and his lady of the hill country of Deisi Mumhan.

Newly Published Book (Hardback: 499 pages)

2007-12-21T21:48:00.000Z

Title: Hearing in the Write

Description: A purely philosophical-poetic work, Hearing in the Write shows a marvellous fluidity and rapidity of thought.

While it neither advocates nor adheres to any philosophy per se; a philosophy in the sense of being a time-honoured discipline hauling and dragging after itself otiose luggage of correct principles of reasoning, it definitely does concern itself in its own lyrical way with profound questions on what exists, what are some of the essential natures of things, how we live our lives, what ‘knowledges’ are thought to be, and above all it concerns itself with safeguarding the spontaneity of speculation.

This delightfully exhilarating work has healing qualities about it in that through means of its powerfully nebulous thought engagements it encourages the mind back out into the heartland of wondrously uninhibited speculations.

The work presents diversion and digression in thought and expression as essential ingredients for the good of our intellectual health.

Newly Published Book (Hardback: 503 pages)

2007-11-27T20:15:00.000Z

Title: Generations Reaching

Description:

Reflections on a sampling of life’s eternal concerns.

Like all my writings, Generations Reaching is being presented as a time barque for the generations of our future, thence enabling them to know, and to come to appreciate the reflections and aspirations that one of their ancestors had, with respect to a sampling of life’s eternal concerns while happily living simply and plainly with his wife and two children in a 21st century of his era;

Happily living simply and plainly in a beautiful border village that the people of his day called Tallow, on the lovely isle they called Éire, of the fragile planet they called Earth, of the solar system he called Garden, of the spiral galaxy they called Milky Way, of the thirty galaxies or more they called Local Group, of the beyond and beyond which he called Horizon, and of the that which they called Great Universe.

Generations of the future in their readings and reflections on this work will be with the delight of knowing that all those decades, hundreds, and thousands and more of years ago, one of their ancestors was already with bringing them and their time to his mind.

Contemporary readers of today's world are cordially invited as honoured guests on board the exquisite Time Barque of the Eternal Ocean for its precious cargo to bethink for themselves, and to bless before it sets sail from out of the bay of our own day.

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Newly Published Book (Hardback: 316 pages)

2007-10-26T19:59:00.000+01:00

Title: A Jesus of Nazareth

Description:

This genre-breaking work readily encourages and lends itself to comparison and contrast with the Holy Bible, the Holy Qur’an, and the Holy Tanakh as well as with the principal philosophical Taoist texts, namely the Tao Te Ching and The Chuang-Tzu.

A Jesus of Nazareth closes the book for me on Jesus content in my writings.

This essentially contemplative work, written as it is to be interpreted both exoterically and esoterically, is an attempt to restore to the bright - the light, the memory, and the power of insight, dream, and intuition.

A necessary caveat respectfully to the reader: neither the Jesus of the Gospels nor the Isa (Arabic for Jesus) of the Qur’an exists here within no more; no more too the Jesus of such works as Kempis’ The Imitation of Christ, Loyola’s Spiritual Exercises or Brown's The Da Vinci Code.

Rather what exists here within is a Jesus of my own inspiration, and, who to my own heart is eminently credible, enjoyable, and profound.

The work traverses the lands we in modern times would refer to as the Arabian Peninsula, Egypt, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, and Syria.

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Newly Published Book (Hardback: 111 pages)

2007-09-25T21:19:00.000+01:00

Title: Myriam of Lebanon

Description:

I have often asked myself how might the myriad contemporary becloudments of the mind, and as a consequence their frustration of the body be transcended once and for all? WhereI have asked dwells in beauty a paraclete?

To such questions and the like, I have pondered with an idea that I have had for some time, namely that most likely a joyous, bright, contemplative of heart, non-denominational woman’s word would be more effective, and even more warmly received by peoples of the world than say a man’s, especially, if she were perceived by them to be in every way exceedingly beautiful, and equally as important, if she were in melliferous voice and rhyme to talk ‘with’ them rather than ‘at’ them.

Myriam of Lebanon is a bright beacon of hope and strength for our times and beyond; a beautiful and endearing work born of the green fields of Éire and the snow-capped mountains of Lebanon.

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